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Pacific Central Coast Health Centers

Pacific Central Coast Health Centers was paid $115K by Medicaid between Jan 2020 and Feb 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 43% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPACIFIC CENTRAL COAST HEALTH CENTERS
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93401
33aNPI1457741837assigned 01/23/2015
28Total paid$115K
24GClaims1,034
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2020 – Feb 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Community Health Clinic/Center providers in California

Rank by total paid#222 of 288
Median peer was paid$2.15M
This provider vs. median0.1×

Peers share this provider's primary NPPES type and state. Size alone says nothing about billing quality: a big agency or a hospital system is expected to sit far above the median.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official MERLO, BRANDON controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$5.0K$10K$15K2018201920202021202220232024
Paid that monthNov–Dec 2024: claims still arriving when the file was cut, so these months run low for every provider
By year, as a table
YearClaimsPaid
2020138$15K
2021358$47K
2022240$28K
2023284$23K
2024incomplete14$2K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 43% 551 523 $49K
99214 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity 20% 196 191 $23K
95886 17% 111 108 $19K
95910 10.0% 70 68 $11K
99215 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis 3.4% 27 27 $4K
99204 Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity 3.1% 26 25 $4K
43239 Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, flexible, transoral; with biopsy, single or multiple 2.0% 27 27 $2K
99244 Office or other outpatient consultation, moderate to high complexity 1.9% 12 12 $2K
97803 <1% 14 14 $755.18

Claims and beneficiary counts add up across code × month rows, so one patient seen every month counts many times. Rows with fewer than 12 claims are suppressed by HHS, so small lines can be missing.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialMERLO, BRANDON (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)
Parent organizationPACIFIC CENTRAL COAST HEALTH CENTERS
Same official

Other billing entities under MERLO, BRANDON

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